What’s Law Got to Do with It?

Takeaway: The understanding that we are not under the Law has caused some Christians to believe that we are free to act only according to our feelings: “We shouldn’t force or fake love but love only when you feel like loving.” Our passage, however, confirms how Christian love is guided by God’s Law. The Law does not merit our salvation, but it is the reflection of the new humanity that Christians are being made into, patterned after Christ. How does God’s Law inform the way you love? How does Christ’s love for you relate to your debt of love to others?